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Contents:

• GAY UPLE WS DISCRIMATN SE AGAST CHRISTIAN HOTELIERS
• GAY UPLE SAY LUXURY HOTEL REFED TO NSIR HOSTG THEIR WEDDG
• GAY UPLE'S HOTEL BATTLE IS LATT SE OF RELIGN CLASHG WH HUMAN RIGHTS
• CHRISTIAN HOTEL OWNERS WHO BARRED GAY UPLE MAY CLOSE BS
• HOTEL OWNERS BARRED GAY UPLE ON RELIG GROUNDS, URT TOLD

GAY UPLE WS DISCRIMATN SE AGAST CHRISTIAN HOTELIERS

Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy reflect on each wng £1, 800 pensatn at Bristol unty urt after beg refed a double room by the Christian owners of Chymorvah hotel Cornwall Prs AssociatnDevout Christian hotel owners who refed to allow a gay uple to share a double room acted unlawfully, a judge at Bristol unty urt led Hall and Steven Preddy, who are civil partners, won their landmark claim for discrimatn a se fund and supported by the Equaly and Human Rights Commissn (EHRC) lg, one of the first ma unr the Equaly Act (Sexual Orientatn) Regulatns 2007, is likely to provi those partnerships wh greater protectn om owners of the Chymorvah private hotel Cornwall, Peter and Hazel Bull, do not allow upl who are not married to share double rooms bee they do not believe sex before Bulls asserted that their refal to acmodate civil partners a double room was not to do wh sexual orientatn but "everythg to do wh sex". The rtrictn, the owners said, applied equally to heterosexual upl who are not his lg, Judge Andrew Rutherford said the hotel had directly discrimated agast the uple on the grounds of their sexual orientatn and award them pensatn of £1, 800 judge said the right of the fendants to manift their relign is not absolute and "n be limed to protect the rights and eedoms of the claimants" scribed the sexual orientatn regulatns as a "necsary and proportnate terventn by the state to protect the rights of others" Wadham, the legal director of the EHRC, said: "The right of an dividual to practise their relign and live out their beliefs is one of the most fundamental rights a person n have, but so is the right not to be turned away by a hotel jt bee you are gay.

GAY UPLE SAY LUXURY HOTEL REFED TO NSIR HOSTG THEIR WEDDG

A gay uple are nsirg takg legal actn after a luxury hotel on Loch Lomond allegedly refed to nsir hostg their weddg bee of their sexual and Stephen Devaney, om Bailliton Glasgow, said the owner of the Loch Lomond Wateront, Suzanne Cottam, “hered out” after they said they were lookg for a weddg cled requts for an terview but the hotel released a statement firmly nyg the Devaneys’ allegatns, scribg them as false and “serly famatory” claims that had led to a surge abive lls to the the latt row about alleged homophobia the hotel tra, John Devaney told the Daily Rerd: “She uldn’t hi her disgt. She told me: ‘We n’t allow people like you here, ’ and said gay marriage was agast her beliefs. “I told her she was entled to her beliefs but gay marriage was now legal.

GAY UPLE'S HOTEL BATTLE IS LATT SE OF RELIGN CLASHG WH HUMAN RIGHTS

He add that they were tendg to get married unr Stland’s new gay marriage legislatn five-star venue on the eastern shore of the loch, which specialis self-terg chalets and bs, boasts that is one of the area’s most sought-after weddg webse stat: “Loch Lomond Wateront is a betiful and ptivatg settg for upl lookg for a tly unique weddg venue. ”The Devaneys have not rpond to further terview requts, but gay rights groups said that if the uple’s allegatns were upheld urt, the hotel uld be found breach of anti-discrimatn Macfarlane, the director of Stonewall Stland, said: “If proven, this alleged cint would be a blatant and hurtful act of discrimatn.

However, the damage uld already be done for the rort if lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, their iends and their fai felt that their ctom is not wele. ”In one of the bt-known s where a hotel has discrimated agast gay ctomers, hoteliers Peter and Hazel Bull were orred to pay £3, 600 pensatn after refg to allow Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy to share a double room at their hotel Cornwall.

Judge Andrew Rutherford, stg at Bristol unty urt, found was "clear that homosexuals as a group are disadvantaged by the practice adopted by [Peter and Hazel Bull]. Campaigner Peter Tatchell has announced that eight upl will apply to the European urt of human rights to overturn the law, on the basis that "creat a system that segregat upl to two separate legal stutns, wh different nam but intil rights and rponsibili… based on their sexual orientatns" gripe is that same-sex upl are nied the right to marry, while heterosexuals are nied the right to civil partnerships – and that both are vlatns of their while some are fightg for gay marriage, the Bulls' se nfirms that, the meantime, Christians will have to accept that civil partnerships are tend to be s equivalent as far as the law is ncerned.

CHRISTIAN HOTEL OWNERS WHO BARRED GAY UPLE MAY CLOSE BS

A Christian uple suggted today they would have to shut down their hotel if a judge l they were wrong to turn away a gay and Hazelmary Bull claimed they refed to let civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy stay at their Cornish hotel bee their fah means they do not believe unmarried upl should share a a landmark se, Hall and Preddy are claimg damag om the Bulls, argug the policy illegally discrimat agast gay tried to check to the Chymorvah private hotel Marazn, near Penzance, 2008, but were not allowed to stay bee they were not rights lawyer Cathere Casserley, reprentg Hall and Preddy, told Bristol unty urt the men had been treated differently bee of their sexualy. The Christian owners of a Cornish hotel told a urt today that they turned away a gay uple bee their fah prevented them om allowg unmarried guts to share a the first se of s kd, Peter and Hazelmary Bull nied the allegatn that they discrimated agast Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy bee they were gay, but sisted their fah meant they believed unmarried upl should not share a room unr their was suggted durg the hearg at Bristol unty urt that the Bulls had been "set up", but Preddy and Hall, who are civil partners, sist that they had no ia of the hotel's policy before Hall, right, and his civil partner Steven Preddy outsi Bristol County by the Equaly and Human Rights Commissn, Preddy and Hall are claimg damag of £5, 000 unr the Equaly Act (Sexual Orientatn) Regulatns.

HOTEL OWNERS BARRED GAY UPLE ON RELIG GROUNDS, URT TOLD

"The hearg heard that the semi-tached hotel has seven rooms total – three doubl, one fay room, two tws and a sgle – wh the Bulls livg on the ground urt heard that the gay rights group Stonewall had wrten to the Bulls a month earlier advisg them of new equaly l.

"The issue was raised durg the general electn mpaign when the then shadow home secretary, Chris Graylg, apologised after sayg that people who ran bed and breakfasts their home ought to be able to turn away gay se ntu.